1. misuse - Noun
2. misuse - Verb
To treat or use improperly; to use to a bad purpose; to misapply; as, to misuse one's talents.
To abuse; to treat ill.
Wrong use; misapplication; erroneous or improper use.
Violence, or its effects.
Source: Webster's dictionaryFood is not evil, but gluttony is. Childbearing is not evil, but fornication is. Money is not evil, but avarice is. Glory is not evil, but vainglory is. Indeed, there is no evil in existing things, but only in their misuse. Maximus the Confessor
LISP has been jokingly described as "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description a great compliment because it transmits the full flavor of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts. Edsger W. Dijkstra
Without a constant misuse of language, there cannot be any discovery, any progress. Paul Karl Feyerabend
Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy. Chris Chocola
I had been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who got drunk - and I would have liked to have the boozing scholars of the Universities wheeled into line and properly chastised for their squalid misuse of what I must ever regard as a gift of the gods. Winston Churchill
While the collateral consequences of drugs such as cocaine are indisputably severe, they are not unlike those which flow from the misuse of other, legal, substances. Byron White